Welcome to Week Three!

Welcome to Week Three of our journey together through English 109H! 

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It's a short week, but we have a lot to cover. 

Some of you are still behind on your blog posts; remember that they are preparation for your first major project which is due at the end of Week 5: The Controversy Analysis, which will take the form of a Quick Reference Guide. The blog posts are important, (although they technically only count towards 10% of your final grade) because they:

1. keep you engaged with the course content and with each other 
2. keep you on track in your research 
3. give you skills the larger assignments require 
4. get you in the habit of writing frequently 

==>>MOST IMPORTANTLY: they function as your drafts for your larger projects. Recall that I will not accept the larger projects that DO count significantly for your grade unless I have seen drafts of your work (review the course policies on your syllabus). 

1. If you don’t do the assignments (in this case blog posts) at all, you get a zero on them, and since you won’t have proof of your research process, I will not accept your Controversy Analysis when it is due. 
2. Recall the late policy from the syllabus: there is a 5% reduction in grade for every 24 hours an assignment (including a blog post) is late. 

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This week in class, we will be looking at examples of what the Quick Reference Guide could look like, and analyzing the requirements of the genre. We will also be working on library research skills.

Week’s reading from textbooks:

1. Read Student’s Guide Section 3.4 “Invention” (pages 43-8) 
2. Read Rules for Writers Chapter 50 “Principles of Document Design” (pages 402-409) 
3. Read Student’s Guide Section 5.4 “Quotation: The Source’s Words” (pages 85-90) and review your citation style's guide for formatting in-text citations in your discipline's citation style 
4. Read Student’s Guide Section 3.5 “Drafting” (pages 49-58)

Week’s reading/learning online:

Discipline-specific library resources

1. Review your discipline’s citation style guide (i.e., MLA, APA, etc.) for formatting in-text citations in your discipline's citation style. If you have not yet found a citation style guide for your discipline, try this link: http://www.library.arizona.edu/search/reference/citation-subj.html
2. If you are having trouble knowing where to look for articles and information in your discipline, try this link: http://new.library.arizona.edu/research/subject
3. Try this free on-line formatter for citations: http://easybib.com/

Complete the following library online tutorials:

1. Searching the Library catalog: http://www.library.arizona.edu/applications/quickHelp/tutorial/searching-the-ua-library-catalog
2. How to search effectively: http://www.library.arizona.edu/tutorials/how_to_search_effectively/
3. Play with the Assignment Scheduler, to see if you are on-track with your research. This is a very useful tool for all your research papers in all your classes!!

This week’s blog posts:

1. Read/Reply/Reflect to Blog 9: “Annotated Bibliography draft 1” 
2. Blog Post 10: “Draft #2 Annotated Biblography in _______ Style” 
3. Blog Post 11: “Cluster/mindmap of [fill in your topic] Controversy” 
4. Read/Reply/Reflect on Blog 11 
5. Blog Post 12: “QRGs, the Genre”

Specific prompts for each blog will follow in separate posts.